Evolution's red-hot radical

摘要

Alfred Russel Wallace is too often remembered as little more than Charles Darwin's goad. Darwin's procrastination in publishing his ideas on evolution by natural selection was ended by the arrival from Indonesia of a manuscript from Wallace that outlined the very same idea. Papers by both men were read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858 (ref. 1). On the Origin of Species, published by Darwin the following year, brought the theory into the public eye.